Tuesday, July 5, 2022 – WEEK SEVEN: The rise of scientific medical research and experimentation
Read as preparation for class discussion:
Porter, Greatest Benefit, “Scientific Medicine in the Nineteenth Century,”
pp. 304-346
R.T.H. Laënnec, “A Treatise on the Diseases of the Chest and on Mediate
Auscultation,” pp 310-313 in Medicine & Western Civilization.
Claude Bernard, “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine,”
pp 314-318 in Medicine & Western Civilization.
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